Synonym: expiation, propitiation, satisfaction. Similar words: postponement, confinement, commencement, enticement, unemployment, comment on, element, clement. Meaning: [-mənt] n. 1. compensation for a wrong 2. the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity).
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31. Aftera rip-roaring start with Joe Wright's Atonement, the British have found themselves rather upstagedattheVenicefilm festival by two American pictures about Iraq from Brian De Palma and Paul Haggis.
32. Talent: Director Joe Wright steered precocious Irish actress Saoirse Ronan to an Oscar nomination in their 2008 period piece Atonement.
33. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.
34. And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
35. And that was accessible only to the high priest and only on the Day of Atonement following a series of heightened purity observances.
36. We expect the transgressor to make any atonement possible to him.
37. Do no work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord your God.
38. But the Calvinistic concept of "limited atonement" whichsome have been indoctrinated with, doesn't go along with thisreasoning, as also is the case with a number of other concepts inCalvinism.
39. His sinless life and substitutionary atonement alone are sufficient for our justification and reconciliation to the Father.
40. ON YOM KIPPUR[1] , the Day of Atonement and holiest festival in Judaism, worshippers beseech God’s pardon.
41. Include one male goat sin offering to make atonement for you.
42. Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
43. Within just one day, the plague killed seventy thousand people, but with the atonement made by the offerings and the intercessory prayers of David, the Lord stayed the hand of the death angel.
44. Confronting sin, Arthur struggles against the conflict of humanity and godhood, and finally comes to confess his sin and repent in the call of God's grace, hence attaining atonement in his death.
45. True guilt is characterized by a readiness to make atonement for having done wrong.
46. W. H. Auden said:"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures. So that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf, demand atonement or grant forgiveness."
47. He sent her some flowers in atonement for his bad behavior.
48. Include male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
49. There are poems relating to sins and their atonement, errors in performing rituals and their expiatory acts, political and philosophical issues, and a wonderful hymn to Prithvi or Mother Earth.
50. Did the death of Christ finish the work of atonement in behalf of the transgressor?
51. Chapter 16 describes the procedure to be followed on the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur.
52. And one goat for a sin offering , to make an atonement for you.
53. We expect transgressor to make any atonement possible to him.
54. The work of the atonement is a substitutionary work of Christ in behalf and instead of sinful man.
55. Fast twice a week – Fasting was not commanded in the Mosaic Law except for the fast on the Day of Atonement.
56. In Judaism, the holiest day of the year is Yom Kippur , the day of atonement.
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57. What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?
58. Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
59. It began with the Day of Atonement, which emphasised the basis of their year of rejoicing and redemption.
60. ISHAN: " I have almost resolved to perform an atonement ceremony. "
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